Improved elastic mousing for hooks



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

EDWD. E. STONE, 0F UNITED STATES NAVY.

IMPRovED ELASTIo MouslNG Fon Hoo'Ks.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,316, dated August 8, 1865.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD E. STONE, lieutenant commanding United States steamer Cimarron, have invented a new and Improved Elastic Mousing for Hooks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ot' this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a snap-hook illustrating my invention; Fig. 2, an edge or front view ot' the same. Fig. 3 is a side view of a pair of sister hooks illustrating my invention. Fig. 4 is an edge View thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicato corre` sponding parts.

The subject of this invention is a mousing of elastic and nolreorrosive material applied to a bool; uot' any suitable form to close it or retain any object within it.

I will first describe the invention as applied totheeonstructionof snap-hooks. Thesehooks are extremely convenient, when attached to halyards, for making signals, hoisting colors, 85e.; and in order to obtain a durable hook of the kind Irlispense with a metal spring entirel y and also with the pivoted lip or snap, and employ a mousing of india-rubber or guttapercha, attached or applied to the hook in such a manner as to answer the purpose of both a snap and spring, as hereinafter set forth.

A represents the body or main portion of the hook, constructed in the usual Way, of wrought or cast metal, and provided at the end opposite to Where the hook ais formed with a swiveleye, B. The hook a may be nearly of semicircular form, and to the body A there is per- ,1 manently attached, by rivets or otherwise, al piece of india-rubber or gatta-perche, C, which This mousing extends from the body A to nearly the end ofthe hook a, a very narrow space only being allowed between them, and it is of slightly-curved form, gradually tapering from its junction with A to its outer end, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. This mousing will yield or give sufficiently to admit of a ring or eye being fitted on the hook a, and it is sufficiently rigid to retain the ring or eye on the hook. Thus by this simple means-l obtain a snap` hook without a spring and also without a pi\-` oted snap, parts which are very liable to become deranged by use, especially the spring, when subjected to moist air from salt water, or occasionally wetted in the latter, as would be the case when used for marine purposes or ou shipboard. Forsister hooks the mousing G is applied in the form ot a band ot' rubber or analogous material encircling the necks of the books A, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, in place of the usual monsing. l

Myinvention is not confined tohoo particular form, butY may beil Se which a mousing is required What I claim as new, and de Letters Patent, is- A mousing of india-rubber o," corrosive material to be appli stantially as described.

EDwD." E. STONE.

Witnesses:

A. A. SEMMES, J. YOUNG. 

